An Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility for today’s attack on a branch of the state security agency that wounded at least 20 people. It was the third major attack by militants in the capital this summer.

Egypt’s president, who has effectively ruled the country by decree for two years, had just approved new counterterrorism laws intended to fight the growing militant insurgency against his government.

• Greece made a $3.56 billion payment to the European Central Bank today, using cash from its new international bailout, a senior government official told Reuters.

• The district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles say background checks used by Uber failed to uncover criminal records of 25 drivers, despite the company’s assurances that it employs “industry-leading” screening.

The disease, fatal if not treated quickly, is found among squirrels, chipmunks and other rodents, but is rare among humans.

• Meet the new Rangers.

Captain Kristen Griest, who has served as a military police platoon leader, and First Lt. Shaye Haver, who was a pilot on an Apache helicopter in an aviation brigade, are the first women set to graduate from the Army’s Ranger School.

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Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital, is once again the center of the world’s art scene this month.

The Edinburgh International Festival, which includes performances in the city’s major theaters and concert halls, began in 1947. Sir Rudolf Bing, who later led the Metropolitan Opera, was the main force behind creating an event to bring global culture to an austere, postwar Britain.

Highlights this year include Juliette Binoche in the lead role of “Antigone,” and a new trilogy of plays by Rona Munro about Scottish kings.

As if that gathering were not enough to swell the city of roughly 500,000 people, there is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a theatrical sideshow that began when a small group of artists was closed out of the main festival in 1947 and decided to perform anyway.

The Fringe now features more than 450 companies putting on 3,314 shows across 313 venues, including pubs and windowless rooms. The shows are typically not prescreened by organizers.

The Edinburgh International Book Festival, which began in 1983 and calls itself the world’s “largest public celebration of the written word,” adds 700 or so events to the city this month.